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   Sisters Enjoy Annual June Community Days
     Every member of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament was present at the annual gathering in which we focused upon the continuing effort to Refound our Congregation upon the spirit and charism of our foundress, Venerable Jeanne Chezard de Matel.
     In the opening session of the assembly, Sister Digna Vela helped us explore the mystery of the Trinity as a model for community and unity.
     On Saturday Father Stan DeBoe and Brother Patrick Wildgen continued the process of encouraging us to live as our foundress did -enbracing whole-heartedly our Triune God and letting go of our fears and beliefs and practices that no longer fit our world today.
     Sunday morning began with a prayer in which we illustrated the weaving of our spirituality and practices around a maypole. May we continue this weaving as we continue Jeanne de Matel's spirit and charism as we meet the challenges that the "Signs of the Times" present to us as faithful daughters of the Church. We pray that the grace of our Creator God, the love of the Incarnate Word and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit sustain us as our Refounding journey continues.

IWBS Sisters Welcome New Associates of the Incarnate Word

The Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament Sisters are happy to welcome newly consecrated Associates. Their foundress, Jeanne de Matel received a special call to institute an Order that would be a new introduction of the Incarnate Word in the world. She saw, in the Associate program, a way to share this gift with many more persons in their own particular way of life. In an effort to be faithful to our own call "to draw others to share in the graces of the Incarnate Word", we have been sharing our spirit with Associates for some twenty years. We have 140 Associates from more than 20 parishes.

Click on "Our Associates" for more on "Associates' Consecration".

Victoria IWBS Sisters Have a Meeting with "Partners in Mission"
		The Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament Sisters have invited "Partners in Mission," some of the lay men and women among whom they minister, to reflect upon needs of the Church and how we can address some of them together. Click here for more on "Partners in Mission". Go to Top

Our retreat provides time for spiritual renewal, prayer, and reflection!

Competent directors, attentive listening, and quiet reflection spaces contribute to a God-filled experience!

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Texas Execution Vigils

On evenings of executions in Texas, you are invited to join us in a Prayer Vigil at 5:45 PM in our Incarnate Word Convent Chapel, 1101 NE Water Street in Victoria, Texas. We pray for the murder victim, for family and friends of the murder victim, for the prison guards and correctional officers, for the family of the condemned man/woman, for the man/woman to be executed, and for an end to the death penalty.

2010 Scheduled Executions in Texas:

Jan. 7 Kenneth Mosley - executed
Jan. 12 Gary Johnson - executed 
Feb. 24 Hank Skinner - postponed to March 24 
Mar. 2 Michael Sigala - executed
Mar. 11 Joshua Maxwell - executed
Mar. 24  Henry Skinner - stayed
Mar. 30  Franklin Alix - executed

Apr. 22  William Berkley - executed
Apr. 27  Samuel Bustamente - executed
May 12  Kevin Varga - executed
May 13  Billy Galloway - executed
May 25  John Alba - executed
June 2  George Jones - executed
June 15  David Powell - executed
June 30  Jonathan Green - stayed
July 1  Michael Perry - executed
July 20  Derrick Jackson - executed
August 17 Peter Cantu

Our
Continuing Call
in Today's World

As we reflect on the Incarnate Word and his call for us to rejoice, let us be mindful that we are celebrating the major events of the awesome incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of the Second Person of God, in which He became one of us so that He could redeem us and lead us to the Father. Now, let us seek Him and let us look afresh at this awesome mystery through the eyes of mystics since we are all called, through our Baptism, to be mystics, that is, persons of prayer, persons whose experience of the presence of God is intense and leads

to continuing conversion.
Let us respond to this call to deep communion of love and of knowledge with God and then share it with all humankind as prophets -persons who communicate the message of God to the whole world. Therefore, let us receive God�s love and, in turn, extend it to others -as mystics and prophets in today's Church.
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Sisters, Charism, and Mission

We,the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament of Victoria, Texas, are women of the Church, who, in our communal living, seek to focus on the Person of the Incarnate Word through adoration, witness, and the Extension of the Eucharist by service to others in a spirit of charity and simplicity.
Our mission is to extend the Incarnation in today's world by living the Gospel of Love, proclaiming the Good News and building the Kingdom of God. Impelled by love to share the Incarnate Word's mission of bringing God's kingdom to be, we joyfully seek to serve those in need, through an apostolate of Christian education and care of the sick as determined by the current needs of the church.
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	Incarnate Word Convent 1101 NE Water Street Victoria, Texas 77901	Phone: (361) 575-7111 FAX: (361) 575-2165 E-mail us!

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Sisters Enjoy Annual June Community Days

IWBS Sisters Welcome New Associates of the Incarnate Word

Victoria IWBS Sisters Have a Meeting with "Partners in Mission"

Our retreat provides time for spiritual renewal, prayer, and reflection!

Texas Execution Vigils

OurContinuing Call in Today's World

Sisters, Charism, and Mission

Our
Continuing Call
in Today's World